More than 25 percent of used vehicles sold at eight CarMax locations across the U.S. contained safety defects that weren’t repaired, despite being under recall, according to a review by car safety advocates. Some of the cars included unrepaired Takata airbags, which have been linked to numerous deaths.

A recall on papayas has been expanded to three brands, with more recalls possible, after the Food and Drug Administration narrowed in on the source of a salmonella outbreak that has been blamed for at least one death and has sickened over 100 more dating back to May.

A large house in Stafford was destroyed by an overnight fire and will have to be razed, a fire official said Thursday. No one was injured in the fire, which burned on all three stories of the older house and displaced 11 residents, Fire Chief David Lucia said.

A bus carrying tobacco workers was involved in a crash with a pickup truck in Suffield on Tuesday morning. Twenty one adults, many of them tobacco workers, were brought to the hospital as a result.

An American Airlines passenger says that he suffered “chronic traumatic brain injury” after allegedly being struck in the head by a runaway beverage cart. Making matters worse, claims the traveler, the cabin crew was not prepared to deal with the situation.

A federal jury in New Haven has found two Norwich residents guilty of fraud and conspiracy offenses related to their staging of car accidents to defraud automobile insurance companies.

If you want some idea of the complex interconnections of the packaged food industry, just try to figure out how one seemingly innocuous ingredient could lead to massive recalls of millions of units of everything from fish sticks to meatballs to chicken fingers.

Insurance companies named in a class-action lawsuit on behalf of homeowners with failing foundations are looking to get the most pressing claims against them dismissed.

A woman is in serious condition after an accident at the Schick factory in Milford on Thursday morning.

Leading travel insurance trends aren’t just focused on hurricanes and illness anymore. A considerable number of traveler inquiries are now seeking to make certain that they are protected against losses from terrorism, too.

An alcohol-fueled fire that gutted a large liquor store Wednesday may have been sparked in electrical wires, the fire chief said. "There’s no reason to suspect arson," Chief David Billings said of the blaze at M&R Liquors, 120 Tolland Turnpike.

An 82-year-old man died after police said he was hit by a snow plow in East Hartford on Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday morning, police identified him as Daniel Baerga of Main Street.

Sanford Heisler, LLP has filed a $50 million amended complaint in the US District Court on behalf of claims specialists Debra Julian and Stephanie McKinney, against MetLife, Inc., the nation’s largest insurance company, and two of its subsidiaries, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and MetLife Insurance Company USA.

On Friday, the meteorology community was riding a major high as stunningly high-definition images came in from the nation’s newest and much-anticipated earth observation satellite. The high came crashing down that evening, though, as the first hints of significant cuts to the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began to emerge.

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times: You don’t want your vehicle to catch on fire. For that reason, Mercedes-Benz is recalling more than 354,000 vehicles.